Moose News OCTOBER 2015

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1 Moose News IOWA CITY LODGE 1096 & CHAPTER 509 It is with a heavy heart that we share the passing of Pilgrim Brother Arden E. Svoboda Sr., age 87. Arden was a member of the Iowa City Moose Lodge 1096 and a Past President of the IA E NE Moose Association. Burial services with military honor will be held at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Coralville, IA follow by a Celebration of Life at IC Moose Lodge 1096 on October 17, 2015 from 4pm to 7pm. Memorial donations can be made in his memory to Mooseheart and Moosehaven. The Pilgrim Ceremony will be about 4:30 pm Bring a story to share about Arden. He always had a story for us. He will be missed by all. OCTOBER 2015 Inside this issue: LOOM News 2 WOTM News 3 Membership 4-5 Upcoming Events 6 Fellowship News 7 Thank You & Moose Charities 8-9 Hawkeye Football Shoparoo & Moose Founders Day Lodge/Chapter Officers and Lodge Information 14 Deadline and information for articles and/or events to include in future issues of Newsletter/Calendar 20th day of every month Newsletter will be complete prior to 1st day of the month Copies of newsletter will be in Lodge Social Quarters Copies of calendar will be in Lodge Social Quarters Send articles to Jane Enderle at janet.enderle@yahoo.com or leave at Social Quarters

2 Lodge Order of Moose As I sit here in my home writing this trying to figure what I am going to say I look out my window and I see my American Flag waving in the wind. I am just staring at it and thinking to myself what a great country I live in to be free and live the American dream. I have a Beautiful family, a great job, and an awesome house. How did I get here? Where did it all start for me? Growing up we struggled through making ends meet. My mom was single and worked 2 to 3 jobs to keep a roof over our heads. Her determination was inspiring to me. She never let us down. As I continue in my Moose career and raising a family I want to be more inspiring and more determined on the focus of bring up great and trustworthy children. Maybe you don't know it but you being a part of the Moose is giving children a reason to grow up and be somebody. By what you do to support the children and seniors inspires them to make you proud to be a moose. You should be proud of yourself to be raising great kids who will someday take care of you. The more people we sign and get involved the more our children and seniors will benefit. TALK MOOSE-LIVE MOOSE-AND ALWAYS BE MOOSE! Thank you for all that you do! Brian Sekafetz Governor Page 2 Moose News

3 WOMEN OF THE MOOSE Greetings Women of the Moose October may bring cooler weather, but it also brings many events at the lodge, such as our annual Soup cook-off. Please check the calendar and come on down and join us. Thanks to Becky Beecher and her September committee for a super Beef & Noodles Friday night dinner!! BJ and Renee s homemade noodles rocked! Please join us at our meetings on the 1 st and 3 rd Tuesdays of each month if you can, we welcome your input. Linda Riggs Senior Regent A child is the hand of God, recording on the universal pages of time, the history of the human race. No man ever stands so tall, or so straight, as when he stoops to lift up a child. James J Davis Page 3

4 HAVING FUN WITH MEMBERSHIP! By Tommy Schultz Membership Chairman We are one third of the way through this year s membership campaign and are down 14 members from April There are many great men out there that would be a good addition to this Lodge. Let s get out there and bring them in. During the months of Sept. Nov. we will be having a promotion and giving away one 40 flat screen television. For every male member that you sponsor, you will be entered into the drawing. On Dec. 5 th we will draw from the lot and announce the winner! Good luck to you all and please help us grow our Lodge! BUILD OUR FOUNDATION Sign up a member and get your name on our retention wall Page 4 Moose News

5 HIGHER DEGREE MEMBERHIP RETENTION PHONE-A-THON The Council of Higher Degrees voted to continue the Phone-a-thon at their meeting held on Saturday July 26, 2014 with one change. It will no longer be a Pizza Party Phone-a-thon.Lodges, Chapters, and or Moose Legions will receive a check for $40.00 to spend as they wish. The $40.00 Award Phone-a-thon program is ran on a quarterly basis. Organize a committee meeting of Lodge and/or Chapter and/or Legion members in your Moose home to call expired and dropped members. After you have had your meeting and turned in the results to me at Janetteb@aol.com, I will send you a check for $ the following information 1. Date of Phone-a-thon. 2. Number of Members called. 3. How many expired Members paid their dues. 4. How many Members re-enrolled. 5. Who participated in the Phone-a-thon. The Fraternal Unit that brings back the most members during each quarter will receive $ to spend as they wish. All Fraternal Units are eligible to participate in this program every quarter. Page 5

6 UPCOMING EVENTS MOOSE DART LEAGUE STARTING IN OCTOBER Dart league starts on October 28th. Sign up sheets in the Lodge Social Quarters. Wednesday and Thursday nights available. SOUP COOK-OFF SATURDAY, OCT. 24 Join the fun and enter your favorite soup/soups. Check at the Lodge for more details. CRADLE FUNDRAISER OCTOBER 2015 The Lodge/Chapter may choose to hold the Cradle Fundraiser together or each hold separate Cradle Fundraiser campaigns the entire month of October Display the paper cradles prominently in your Moose Home. Ask every member/guest to become an Endowment Fund donor. Write the amount of the donation and his/her name on the paper Cradle after making a donation. Collect cash $1, $5, $10 and up. MOOSE FOUNDER S DAY OCTOBER 27 JAMES J. DAVIS BIRTHDAY James J Davis was the 2nd United States Secretary of Labor and was in office from March 5, 1921 to November 20, He served under Presidents Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. He was the United States Senator from Pennsylvania from December 2, 1930 to January 3, James J. Davis died November 22, 1947 at the age of 74. Page 6 Moose News

7 Fellowship Degree of Honor ARTICLE FROM HIGHER DEGRE OCT, MOV, DEC 2015 NEWSLETTER Membership in the Fellowship Degree of Honor is comprised of those who take an active role in building membership, serve on committees and volunteer their time and talents in service to Moose programs. Those who serve as Chairmen of various committees and as officers in the Lodge, Moose Legion, District and Associations are most often recognized and recommended for advancement. Congratulations to the following Moose Legionnaires who received their Fellowship Degree at the International Moose Convention Nashville, TN on July 6, JEFFREY LEONARDI - FORT DODGE MOOSE LODGE 806 TRAVIS COADY - NEWTON MOOSE LODGE 923 RICHARD HOFFMAN SR - WATERLOO MOOSE LODGE 328 Congratulations to the following Moose Legionnaires who received their Fellowship Degree at the IA E NE Moose Association 102nd Annual Conference in Waterloo, IA on August 8, MIKE WILLIAMS - CAPITAL CITY MOOSE LODGE 2589 JEFF BARNES - CEDAR RAPIDS MOOSE LODGE 304 CHUCK FORD - IOWA CITY MOOSE LODGE 1096 JOHN JACKSON - IOWA CITY MOOSE LDOGE 1096 DAVUD MUHS - MT PLEASANT MOOSE LODGE 1003 Congratulations to the following Moose Legionnaire who received his Fellowship Degree at the Washington State Northern Idaho Moose Association 68th Annual Convention in Spokane, WA on September 12, Travis Coady Pictured left to right: Jeff Leonardi, Mike Williams, Dave Muhs, Jeff Barnes, Dick Hoffman, John Jackson, and Chuck Ford. Bill Cook Page 7

8 MOOSEHEART FUNDRAISER FOR THE BOYS AT IOWA-EASTERN NEBRASKA HOUSE The Iowa City Moose Lodge 1096 and Chapter 509 raised $2,000 plus other personal donations for the Iowa-Eastern Nebraska House at Mooseheart. Because of your generosity our boys and house parents will enjoy food, towels, gift cards, etc. We are very proud of our members for their donations. Page 8 Moose News

9 Bake Sale --- November 21 st Iowa City Moose Lodge Social Quarters Let us help you get ready for those Thanksgiving Meals! Baked goods, canned goods, anything you might need. If you love to bake, please feel free to donate to the sale and show off your talents. All proceeds will go to the great room improvement fund. Signs will be posted regarding times check at Lodge. BJ/Renee, co-chairpersons Thank you for your generosity!!!!! Page 9

10 HAWKEYE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE OF MEALS Saturday, Illinois State Home 11 am Taco Bar Saturday, Iowa State Away 3:30 pm Burger Fest Silent Auction 3 to 8 Saturday, Pittsburgh Home 7:00 pm Regular Menu Mooseheart Homecoming Saturday, North Texas Home 2:30 pm Meal TBA Saturday, Wisconsin Away 11 am Meal TBA Saturday, Illinois (Homecoming) 11 am Baked Potato and Salad Bar Saturday, Northwestern Away 11 am Burger Fest Saturday, Maryland Home TBA Hawk Dog Bar Halloween Saturday, Indiana Away TBA Meal TBA Saturday, Minnesota Home 7:00 pm Meal TBA Saturday, Purdue Home TBA Omelet Bar Friday, Nebraska Away 11:00 am Pot Luck Page 10 Moose News

11 HAWKEYE FOOTBALL 2015 SCHEDULE DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME 9/5/2015 ILLINOIS STATE IOWA CITY, IA 11:00 AM 9/12/2015 IOWA STATE AMES, IA 3:30 PM 9/19/2015 PITTSBURGH IOWA CITY, IA 7:00 PM 9/26/2015 NORTH TEXAS IOWA CITY, IA 2:30 PM 10/3/2015 WISCONSIN MADISON, WI 11:00 AM 10/10/2015 ILLINOIS IOWA CITY, IA 11:00 AM 10/17/2015 NORTHWESTERN EVANSTON, IL 11:00 AM 10/31/2015 MARYLAND IOWA CITY, IA TBA 11/7/2015 INDIANA BLOOMINGTON, IN TBA 11/14/2015 MINNESOTA IOWA CITY, IA 7:00 PM 11/21/2015 PURDUE IOWA CITY, IA TBA 11/27/2015 NEBRASKA LINCOLN, NE TBA HAWKEYE FOOTBALL TAILGATING Yes, we are again donning our Black and Gold for Hawkeye football. Every Saturday in the Social Quarters, we will have the game on all the TV, grab bags for every Quarter and for the kids and adults. You just never know what fun thing you might get. Also we will have the sack pools and raffles. We will have the usual Burger fest. However this year we will have some different menu item such as Walking Tacos, Baked Potato and Salad Bar, Hot Dog Fixing Bar, and an Omelet Fixing Bar. We also will have the Burger fest with all the fixings. Keep an eye out on the calendar, Facebook, website, or the new white board with the weekly events listed to know when these are scheduled to happen. So come on down to the Moose and root the Hawks on to Victory!!! Page 11

12 SHOPAROO.COM HELP OUR MOOSEHEART KIDS IT S EASY AND IT S FREE!!! Shoparoo gives money to schools for pictures of receipts. Upload the Shoparoo app to your Smartphone. The app is free. Pick Mooseheart School as your school of choice and start snapping or drop them off at the Iowa City Moose Lodge Social Quarters and someone will submit them for you Snap pictures of your receipts from any store, big or small, that sells grocery items to earn Roo Points (cash donations) for your school. Whether you re shopping at a supercenter, dollar store, or local convenience store it doesn t matter where you shop or what items you buy. Shoparoo will make a cash donation for every receipt! Submit up to 20 grocery receipts within a rolling 7 day period. Snap pictures of your receipts from any restaurant or other retailer (that doesn t sell grocery items) to earn entries for your school into Shoparoo s $1,000 monthly sweepstakes and $15,000 yearly sweepstakes! Each receipt counts as an entry into both monthly and yearly sweepstakes, so spread the word at your school. The more receipts you submit, the greater your school s chance is of winning. Submit up to 50 non-grocery receipts within a rolling 7 day period. Receipts must be submitted with 14 days of purchase date!! Check out Shoparoo.com for more details! Page 12 Moose News

13 MOOSE FOUNDER S DAY OCTOBER 27 JAMES J. DAVIS BIRTHDAY Though the Moose fraternal organization was founded in the late 1800s with the modest goal of offering men an opportunity to gather socially, it was reinvented during the first decade of the 20th century into an organizational dynamo of men and women who set out to build a city that would brighten the futures of thousands of children in need all across North America. When Dr. John Henry Wilson, a Louisville, Ky., physician, organized a handful of men into the Loyal Order of Moose in the parlor of his home in the spring of 1888, he and his compatriots did so apparently for no other reason than to form a string of men's social clubs. Lodges were instituted in Cincinnati, St. Louis, and the smaller Indiana towns of Crawfordsville and Frankfort by the early 1890s, but Dr. Wilson himself became dissatisfied and left the infant order well before the turn of the century. It was just the two remaining Indiana Lodges that kept the Moose from disappearing altogether, until the fall of 1906, when an outgoing young government clerk from Elwood, Ind., was invited to enroll into the Crawfordsville Lodge. It was on James J. Davis' 33rd birthday, October 27, that he became just the 247th member of the Loyal Order of Moose. Davis, a native of Wales who had worked from boyhood as an "iron puddler" in the steel mills of Pennsylvania, had also been a labor organizer and immediately saw potential to build the tiny Moose fraternity into a force to provide protection and security for a largely working-class membership. At the time little or no government "safety net" existed to provide benefits to the wife and children of a breadwinner who died or became disabled. Davis proposed to "pitch" Moose membership as a way to provide such protection at a bargain price; annual dues of $5 to $10. Given a green light and the title of "Supreme Organizer," Davis and a few other colleagues set out to solicit members and organize Moose Lodges across the U.S. and southern Canada. (In 1926, the Moose fraternity's presence extended across the Atlantic, with the founding of the Grand Lodge of Great Britain.) Davis' marketing instincts were on-target: By 1912, the order had grown from 247 members in two Lodges, to a colossus of nearly 500,000 in more than 1,000 Lodges. Davis, appointed the organization's first chief executive with the new title of Director General, realized it was time to make good on the promise. The Moose began a program of paying "sick benefits" to members too ill to work--and, more ambitiously, Davis and the organization's other officers made plans for a "Moose Institute," to be centrally located somewhere in the Midwest that would provide a home, schooling and vocational training to children of deceased Moose members. After careful consideration of numerous sites, the Moose Supreme Council in late 1912 approved the purchase of what was known as the Brookline Farm--more than 1,000 acres along the thendirt surfaced Lincoln Highway, be-tween Batavia and North Aurora on the west side of the Fox River, about 40 miles west of Chicago. Ohio Congress-man John Lentz, a member of the Supreme Council, conceived the name "Mooseheart" for the new community: "This," he said, "will always be the place where the Moose fraternity will collectively pour out its heart, its devotion and sustenance, to the children of its members in need. Page 13

14 LOOM OFFICERS: Past Governor Greg Childs Governor Brian Sekafetz Jr. Governor Tommy Schultz Prelate Rick Greiner Administrator Keith Garling Treasurer Merle Beverlin 3rd year Trustee Dan Funk 2nd year Trustee Art Dresden 1st year Trustee David Scooby Alberhaskey Sergeant at Arms Chris Witmer Lodge Hours: Monday Thursday 2:30 PM 11:00 PM Friday Saturday 2:30 PM 1:30 PM Sunday 11:00 AM 7:00 PM Lodge contact info: Lodge Administrator: Keith Garling Phone number: address: Website: Moose International Website: Moose News Committee: Janet Enderle, BJ Monroe, and Rick Greiner WOTM OFFICERS: Senior Regent Linda Riggs Junior Regent Janice Irvin Secretary/Treasurer Monica Plum Recorder Sharon Simon Junior Graduate Regent Janet Enderle MOOSE LEGION: Committee Chair Rick Greiner MOOSE RIDERS OFFICERS: President Gayle Miller-Sheely Vice President Gloria Herdlicka Secretary Scott Stillman Treasurer Ken Herdlicka Road Captain Robin Sheely Iowa City Moose Lodge Highway 6 E Iowa City, IA DO YOU WANT TO RECEIVE TEXT MESSAGES OF UPCOMING EVENTS/MEALS ON YOUR MOBILE DEVICE. Visit our website at On the home page, there is a link to input your mobile number. You can also stop by the Iowa City Lodge Social Quarters and add your name and number to the sign up sheet at the bar. You will be given the opportunity to opt out at any time.